Can America intervene in Venezuela? This hypothesis was not ruled out by the American president. “I’m not ruling anything out. We just need to take care of Venezuela,” said Donald Trump this Monday during a press conference at the White House.
“They are sending thousands of people to our country out of prison.» he told a journalist who asked him about the possibility of sending to intervene in the South American country. “There are millions of people crossing our borders, and many of them are from Venezuela including (members of) the Tren de Aragua gang.”
While tensions between the two countries have been increasing for several weeks, Donald Trump also announced that he would speak with his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolás Maduro. “Someday I will talk to him,” he told reporters from the Oval Office, adding that Nicolás Maduro “has not had a good impact on the United States.”
Change in diet
Since August, Washington has maintained a significant military presence in the Caribbean, including half a dozen warships, including its most advanced aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford. Officially, this operation aims to combat drug trafficking into the United States. Washington carried out a total of twenty attacks on ships they accused – without providing evidence – of transporting drugs, causing at least 83 casualties.
But Caracas accused Washington of using drug trafficking as a pretext “to impose regime change” on Caracas and confiscate its oil, and its president Nicolás Maduro described the new joint exercises as “irresponsible.”
Furthermore, the United States this week conducted joint exercises with the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago, which is only about ten kilometers from Venezuela.
